Yumi Araki

Yumi Araki is senior producer and editorial lead with the iDeas Lab, where she serves as the media mentor for CSIS’s Practicum in Modern Journalism and works with CSIS programs to produce multimedia content. She comes to CSIS with experience in radio, print, and video journalism. Previously, she worked as a producer for the show "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" at Boston's NPR affiliate, covered the 2016 presidential election for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, and produced science-themed videos for Harvard and MIT. She holds an M.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a B.S. from Boston University's College of Communication. She joined CSIS in 2017.